June 2019 Art News

Painted in 1822, Sun-rise. Whiting Fishing at Margate is one of the greatest and most beautiful watercolours by J.M.W. Turner. In this episode of Anatomy of an Artwork, discover how the magical light of Turner’s sunrise gives warmth to everything it touches as the silence of night gives way to the sounds and activities of the day.
More than 50 works, many of which have not been exhibited for decades, comprise In a New Light: Alice Schille and the American Watercolor Movement, on view June 14 to Sept. 29, 2019, at the Columbus Museum of Art (CMA). 
His murals have graced walls from Paris to Israel and Ellis Island. Now the world-renowned muralist JR has left his mark on San Francisco for the first time.
Dustin Yellin makes mesmerizing artwork that tells complex, myth-inspired stories. How did he develop his style?
The Seattle Art Museum presents Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement (June 13–September 8, 2019), exploring how three generations of rebellious British artists, designers, and makers responded to a time of great social upheaval and an increasingly industrial world.
An Egyptian brown quartzite head of Tutankhamen as the God Amen, its features reminiscent of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen, a device used to align the ruling King with deities, will lead The Exceptional Sale in London on 4th July. The head which has been well published and exhibited in the last 30 years, is expected to realize over £4million.
Michelle Finamore, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston’s Penny Vinik Curator of Fashion Arts, explores the rich history of gender in fashion in a tradition-disrupting exhibition, now on view. For a museum whose first curator of contemporary art was not appointed until the 1970s, the MFA’s trajectory into 21st-century collecting has been rocket-like. Gender Bending Fashion seeks to continue this modernization by drawing the interest of communities not usually found wandering the galleries of this august institution.
Corrie & Nat discuss the timeless drama of "The Calling of Saint Matthew" by one of the baddest boys of the Baroque, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
L’Affichomania: The Passion for French Posters debuts June 8–Sept. 15, 2019, at Taft Museum of Art before national tour
In between Memorial Day and July 4 is a family cookout of another kind at Flutter, the recently opened artist space in Los Angeles through November.